Job Coach

**Job description**

Calling all Developmental Service Workers, Social Service Workers, and Personal Support Workers

**Position Overview**:
Join us in creating a fulfilling work experience that fits your life. We are offering an exciting full-time position

We are seeking compassionate and dedicated Direct Service Workers to join our team as a Counsellor. In this role, you will provide direct support to individuals in their daily activities, helping them achieve their personal goals and improve their quality of life within a team of health and wellness professionals.

**Are you looking for a career that has meaning? Come work for us**

Community Living Cambridge (CLC) is a local not-for-profit organization that employs more than 300 staff and supports hundreds of adults with developmental disabilities. CLC has over 25 group homes with supported living, work, volunteering, recreational, and adult development programs.

**Mission**: we partner with individuals who have developmental disabilities and their community to live fulfilling lives.

**Vision**:where individuals are supported, through opportunities and choice, to work towards their dreams.

**Values and Guiding Principles**:

- Inclusive: we put individuals with developmental disabilities first, offering choice and responsive person-centred planning.
- Respectful: we treat every person with dignity, compassion and kindness, as the basis to develop meaningful relationships.
- Innovative: we promote a creative and agile culture that inspires progressive collaborating, flexibility and continuous quality improvement.
- Accountable: we ensure that within our decision and strategies, the sustainability of CLC is preserved with integrity, transparency and effective use of resources.

**Here's What You Can Look Forward to**:

- A competitive starting rate that increases after you finish probation
- Opportunity for career training and development, professional/personal growth
- CLC supports the DSW Apprenticeship Program - please inquire
- Benefits: Paid time off (sick and vacation), RRSP Matching, Extended Health Benefits, Dental, Vision, Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP), Casual dress, On-site parking
- Perkopolis, offering exclusive access to a wide range of discount on products and services around Canada
- The chance to have a positive impact working with adults with developmental disabilities
- Developing relationships and helping people achieve their life goals, hopes and dreams
- A supportive and inclusive environment
- Competitive wage and benefits package once become full time

The Job Coach is responsible for facilitating the process of connecting individuals with developmental disabilities to

Employment and community opportunities, and providing the necessary support and training to help them succeed in those areas.

**Key Responsibilities and Duties**:

- Assess job seekers to determine barriers to employment, career interests/goals, training eligibility and labour
- Screen and refer active job seekers for internal and external training/employment/placement opportunities.
- Refer active job seekers to internal and external programs to support/overcome employment barriers.
- Promote, support and maintain services (screening, resume and job search assistance) within the Resource Centre.
- Deliver orientation sessions, workshops and other employability skills training for job seekers.
- Communicate with internal supports and community agencies for mutual referral and program purposes.
- Coordinate opportunities for community agencies to participate in various aspects of Regional Programs (job fairs, employer panels, mock Interviews, presentations etc.).
- Coordinate education and awareness training for job seekers and community agencies.
- Intensively support, through weekly contact, participants to maintain employment through job task analysis/identification and assist participants with strategies to be successful.
- Maintain regular and consistent follow up through weekly contact with internal supports/community agencies and participants to monitor progress and problem solve/trouble shoot when necessary.
- Liaise with other internal and external professional staff to provide service coordination on behalf of participants.
- Perform other duties as assigned.

**Description of core Qualifications**:

- Willing to help and encourages others to learn new and different parts of their jobs by sharing knowledge, experience, and information.
- Respects the expertise of others and takes advantage of opportunities to learn from them.
- Thinks ahead and plans for contingencies and effectively prepares and organizes resources and activities.
- Makes sure things aren’t left to chance; sets up contingency plans to deal with last minute changes, ensures sufficient follow-up to check on progress, uncovers potential problems, and identifies areas where support/assistance might be needed.
- Produces good results when working with others by display